Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 June 2004
105 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason grant aid under the farm waste management scheme is not available for replacement of one gang slats in slatted cattle houses while such aid is available for the replacement of single slats one or otherwise; his proposals to amend this anomaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18299/04]
View answerThe farm waste management scheme does not provide grant aid for the repair of existing buildings. However, when the revised farm waste management scheme was introduced in January of this year, I decided to provide grant aid for the removal of single slats and their replacement by gang slats as an exceptional safety measure. Gang slats tend to be inherently safer than single slats and are now manufactured to a more rigorous standard specification. I have no plans to extend grant-aid under the scheme to the replacement of existing gang slats by new gang slats.
